I woke up very early in the morning but wasn't able to watch BPL matches on either NBC Sports Network or USA because the digital signals couldn't be decoded, the pictures were totally messed up. I am not sure if even Comcast got some pressures to manipulate the programs. Thinking about online streaming, I turned onto NBCSN website to watch. It seemed working at the beginning after I accessed my Comcast account, but the connection subsequently was lost. I had to run anti-virus software to fix it. I think either Comcast or hackers did this whole thing.
Going downstairs, I suddenly realized that non-digital channels might still receive analog signals, so they might work. Searching through all those double digits channels, I finally found out Channel 34 for NBCSN and 58 for USA both worked very well. I should have thought about this earlier, at that moment, only 10 minutes was left for Manchester United taking Swansea. I would find later that Rooney had scored an amazing goal earlier in the match after young French passed from the bottom line.
The final match for Saturday was televised on NBC flagship channel on which the pictures were clear, actually, the other two were fixed too but they were no longer relevant, so I decided to go back to my bedroom to watch Manchester City playing Watford. Watson seemed with good footwork, he made a curved free kick in front of big box of Man City in the first half but drove it too high. In second half, his corner kick was curved perfectly hitting Man City's player's head to cause an own goal. However, in the last 10 minutes, Toure scored a beautiful volley and Aguero made a header at a dead angle.
It was the last day for College Bowl Mania if National Championship wasn't counted. The first one was Taxslayer Bowl in which Penn State lost to Georgia. Later in the game, Nittany Lions caught up a little bit but was too late.
During this holiday break, I had been going to gym in the morning everyday but switched to the afternoon from today because I normally work out at night on weekdays. Catching Alamo Bowl on TV gym turned on, I figured Oregon dominating the game.
Working out was more important, I had felt so fulfilled during this break because I was able to do it everyday.
My dad actually drafted a book by himself. His point was that the world can be analysed, managed through three aspects: Science, Humanity or Religions. Possibly influenced by some of my opinions and comments, he becomes interested in economics theories recently, so asked me yesterday if I could get some books written by Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes. I told him that I could order these old books through Amazon. However, his inquiry triggered my desire to go to Barnes & Noble after the workout.
Arriving at the bookstore, I found bargaining prices for some novels but those were not my focus. I was looking for all those economics books I had searched online. The sections were reshuffled at this store close to Alderwood Mall, I walked around the entire store to eventually come to the business section. I could have asked the staff but did want to take a tour because I hadn't come to this store for a year and a half.
Grabbing four books from the shelves in addition to a novel I had grabbed earlier, I walked to Starbucks inside the store. Ordering a grande latte, I started glancing all these books. Capital in 21st Century was a must read and I was already too late. But I wanted to compare it with Karl Marx's Das Kapital, so would buy both on Amazon in 2nd half of 2016. I always prefer reading these books in original but I had to learn much more German and French before I could do it. Saving Capitalism seemed not fitting my tastes very much at this moment. The background of the novel was traced back to 1920s, which I wasn't interested in. Eventually, I picked the other two: Economics Rules and The Courage to Act. Sitting at the table to sip coffee while sorting out the books was very comfortable and enjoyable, I really hope Amazon and Barnes & Noble coexist forever.
Passing the presenting table of those novels, I snapped two of them as the appetizers for my reading in the next two months. 6 bucks for each hardcover book was really a great deal and the stories seemed fascinating.
Coming back home, I noticed Alamo Bowl still being played and surprisingly TCU was catching up. Eventually the game went into triple overtime and TCU won at the end. As I tweeted, TCU was the first ever US college issuing I-20 to me in late 1986. On my mind now, I still can recall their purpled abbreviations on the letter I received back then. This one I downloaded from their website seems not exactly as the one on my mind though. It was not as dimensional as this one.
I wrapped up my day by watching Cactus Bowl to the end. Unfortunately Arizona State lost to West Virginia in Phoenix.
I told my dad that I would like to buy Das Kapital as well because I figured many economists start paying their attentions to Marx's theories and Marx's contributions as an economist and social scientist might be more significant than what we thought. My dad always thinks Marx didn't create valuable theories by himself because as he said to me, he didn't really know much about Marx's true theories. I doubt even the leaders in those communist parties really understand Marx at all. However, my dad recommended a summarized Das Kapital in Chinese translation he didn't read through to me. I will buy an English version anyway. I am sure English translation is much closer to German than Chinese.
In my opinion, Marx is right that the world has been progressed from Primitivism to Slavism to Feudalism to Capitalism, the next stage is Socialism. However, his theory in revolutionary is wrong because in a modern Capitalism, majority of the populations are middle class who have the ownership of assets, very few people desire to make personal gains through revolutions.
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